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We've had a number of users getting going with our Rails-all-in-one ServerTemplate , and from the questions we've received it's clearly time to cover some more advanced topics. Database Backups The template does include automatic database backups but you need to provide the necessary information to enable them. Edit the template before launching the server and fill in the `DB_MYSQLDUMP_BUCKET`, `...Read more

One of our customers is deploying many Rails sites onto EC2 - more precisely, many instances of virtually the same site. Basically it has a Rails application and tweaks it for each individual site it sets up. EC2 is a wonderful deployment platform for this type of business because there is little friction in adding customers, since it takes just one button press to get more servers. The overall...Read more

I previously showed off our Rails-with-Mephisto ServerTemplate so now it's time for the Rails-all-in-One ServerTemplate. It makes it easy to get your own Rails application running on Amazon EC2. We've made this template public, so any RightScale user can use it for free! Let me show how you can configure and deploy your own Rails app in just minutes by using our publicly available Rails All-In-...Read more

The key to a successful site setup on Amazon EC2 are scalability and redundancy. RightScale makes this easy by providing ServerTemplates and multi-server deployments. To get started, let's take the simplest case: a single-server setup. We have a free Rails all-in-one ServerTemplate that is excellent not just to play around with, but also to use as development server, staging server, or even as...Read more

The new Rails All-In-One ServerTemplate we just made public makes it really easy to get your own Rails application running on Amazon EC2 . And it's all free to boot! The ServerTemplate is a collection of RightScripts that install Apache, mod_balancer, Mongrel, and MySQL, and a backup cron script all on one EC2 instance. All you need to do is to specify where your code is located and launch the...Read more